Archive for the 'Mac' Category

Mac OS X 10.5: Quick launch Front Row

November 5th, 2007 by Kurt Wolf

Pressing Apple-Esc will launch Front Row. Pretty slick!

Mac OS X 10.5: Hide the Time Machine drive

November 5th, 2007 by Kurt Wolf

I have two drives on my Mac and I wanted to hide the Time Machine drive. I have no need to access this drive and I wanted a cleaner desktop. I found some information online that lead me to a good method to perform the task.

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Mac OS X 10.5: Unable to eject (unmount) a disk image

November 5th, 2007 by Kurt Wolf

I have come acros a rather annoying bug in 10.5. It seems that when a disk image (DMG) is mounted, the finder is unable to eject (dismount) the image. I have tried both Apple+E as well as dragging the disk to the trash. Both methods were unsuccessful. The disks can be ejected using the Disk Utility application. See the following URL’s for an ongoing discussion.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1198385&stqc=true

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5677911

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Help Menu

October 30th, 2007 by Kurt Wolf

I noticed an interesting little feature in the help menu. A search is now integrated directly into the menu. I’m sure this will be nice for those people who RTFM. ;) This seems to be present in every application.

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PHP version for Mac OS X 10.5

October 29th, 2007 by Kurt Wolf

I have been spending the evening looking at my fresh install of Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5). It looks like PHP version 5.2.4 is installed by default. As of today, this is the latest version available. So far, the built in web server is not processing .php pages. I’ll look into that next.

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UPDATE: Upgrading to 10.5.1 has resolved the issues displaying PHP pages.

Cingular/AT&T GPRS Bluetooth Internet Access

July 19th, 2007 by Kurt Wolf

I have given up on the Aircard when I switched to using a Mac at work. So, for remote Internet access, I configured my Mac to use my Treo 750. The entire setup is utilizing bluetooth. It took bit of Googling to find the right information.

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